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Union and Empire
Cambridge University Press 2007; US$ 30.00Major new interpretation of the 1707 Act of Union and the making of the United Kingdom. more...
The Absent-Minded Imperialists
Oxford University Press, UK 2004; US$ 37.99Kipling, Elgar, Mafeking Night . . . all these conjure up an image of a British society besotted with imperial pride in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. In fact the true picture was more complex than this and people reacted to their empire in different ways. Many were hardly aware of it at all. This lively book is the first study of the... more...
Everyday Life in Medieval England
Continuum International Publishing 2001; US$ 170.00Everyday Life in Medieval England captures the day-to-day experience of people in the middle ages - the houses and settlements in which they lived, the food they ate, their getting and spending - and their social relationships. The picture that emerges is of great variety, of constant change, of movement and of enterprise. Many people were downtrodden... more...
Muslims in Britain
Edinburgh University Press 2009; US$ 113.99Following the events of 11th September 2001 in the USA, and more especially, the bombings on the London underground on 7th July 2005 and the incident at Glasgow Airport on 30th June 2007, an increasing amount of public attention has been focused upon Muslims in Britain. Against the backdrop of this debate, this book sets out a series of innovative... more...
Identity of England
Oxford University Press, UK 2004; US$ 48.99Only forty years ago, English identity was not in question. Indeed it was hardly recognized as a subject for discussion, except perhaps in rather an ironic vein. Now, as certainty has given way to concern and every aspect of national life is changing with revolutionary speed, the 'national question' is back on the agenda. Robert Colls's... more...
Exclusionary Empire
Cambridge University Press 2009; US$ 23.00Exclusionary Empire examines the transfer of English traditions of liberty and the rule of law overseas from 1600 to 1900. more...
The Empire Project
Cambridge University Press 2009; US$ 24.00Magisterial global history of the rise and fall of the British Empire by award-winning author. more...
The Empire of Cnut the Great
BRILL 2008; US$ 173.00The reign of King Cnut the Great (1016-1035) marks a pivotal point in the history of both England and Scandinavia, yet his conquests and his consolidation of power remain under-appreciated and rarely studied. Almost all existing scholarship has been geographically centred on either England or Scandinavia. However, this study, through a series of studies... more...
Empire and Scottish Society
Edinburgh University Press 2009; US$ 104.99An in depth study of the significance of Empire to Scots in the 19th Century more...









